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DocumentSmallholder Livestock Keepers in the Era of Globalization
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
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No results found.Despite economic growth and development in most countries of the world, extreme poverty is still at an unacceptably high level, particularly in rural areas. The majority of the world’s poor depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and within agriculture livestock fulfill a number of important roles. Growth rates of the livestock sector, fuelled by increasing demand for livestock derived food items from growing and more affluent urban populations, are higher than those for crops and non-food a gricultural products. Diversification into and intensification of smallholder livestock production could therefore effectively contribute to poverty alleviation. Markets, both for production inputs as well as for outputs are essential for connecting rural smallholders with urban consumers. Globalization has the potential to result in enhanced market access by smallholders through direct as well as indirect impacts but also bears the risk of their exclusion. -
Book (series)Smallholder Dairy in the Face of Globalization - The Case of South Asia 2005
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No results found.Between one third and half of the world’s poor population live in South Asia and many of them rely on dairy farming for a part of their livelihood. Even though South Asia is one of the world’s major milk producing regions - with India having become the world leader in milk production in 1998 - milk production remains predominantly a smallholder business. -
Book (stand-alone)Understanding the impact of planted forest on smallholder livestock farmers and their livelihoods in the Greater Mekong Subregion 2021
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No results found.Significant forest change in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has resulted in deforestation of primary forests and expansion of plantation forests. Although plantation forest development benefits rural communities through income generation and employment opportunities, there have been negative impacts, including reductions in livestock grazing land and collection of non-timber forest products. This study analysed the association between primary forests, plantation forests, grazing areas and large ruminant populations in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. The report showed that livestock populations in the GMS are dynamic and have been under pressure due to enhanced trade and demand in red meat in China and Viet Nam, with a generally positive association between planted forest areas and populations of cattle and buffalo in Lao PDR and Viet Nam indicated. Tree plantations were an important source of income and generally perceived as having a positive impact on rural livelihoods, despite negatively impacts in grazing land availability. It is recommended that integrative approaches that include the collection of household level data to assess the impact on smallholder livelihoods and the collection of regional level data to capture forest changes in future forest assessments, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of the association between primary forests and planted forest on smallholder livestock production. Silvopastoral models have the potential to provide more viable and sustainable alternatives to the current forestry and livestock production models, supporting the transformation to more sustainable agriculture for better production, better environment, and sustainable development goals in GMS countries and beyond.
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